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We want to thank everyone in our community who has signed our petition already - on doorsteps, in stores and in churches. If you have not yet had the opportunity to sign in person, you may now sign our Online Petition.

Note: Your street address and email address will be kept private and will not be displayed publicly. You can also hide your name if you uncheck the "Signature Display" setting which allows you to remain anonymous to the public (the Weston Community Coalition will still have access to your details for the petition).

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29 May 2009: Metrolinx is planning a Design Charrette on Saturday, May 30, from 12 to 5 pm, at the Weston Park Baptist Church. We have been invited to attend. Metrolinx will use this Design Charrette to get ideas for the design of a pedestrian bridge over the tracks at John Street. Apparently, although the EA is not yet complete, Metrolinx has ruled out the possibility of keeping John Street open. Metrolinx has advised us that this charrette is co-hosted by MP Alan Tonks, MPP Laura Albanese, and Councillor Frances Nunziata, although Ms. Nunziata denies that she agreed to co-host, and is opposed to the road closure.

April 4, 2009: Last Friday residents around the Junction discovered how noisy old technology pile drivers were. GO transit is driving 2100 steel girders into the earth to support the rail-to-rail grade separation there. The noise level at the nearby school is 105 Decibels. The vibrations are shaking nearby houses. GO has offered earplugs and ear muffs to residents who complain.

3 March 2008: In the past few weeks, much has happened. Metrolinx has held its open houses. The one in Weston was by far the best attended, with lineups at the door in the evening.

However, we have had to complain to Metrolinx and various politicians over the lack of transparency and openness at these open houses, and in the public statements made by Metrolinx. Metrolinx does not see any problem with any of their consultation, and does not plan to bring clearer and more detailed project plans for further public consultation before the plan is finalized and submitted to the new speedy EA process. Here are some of the contradictions and concerns we have.

First, as we had been advised by our MPP to expect, the provincial government reneged on its promise to study alternatives. The Minister of Transportation has ordered Metrolinx to now carry the Environmental Assessment (EA) for ‘Blue 22’. Metrolinx has advised us that there will be ‘consultation’ with the public, but this EA will be the new, shorter version, with no ability to study alternatives, and no ability to appeal any project which causes harm to the socio-economic fabric of Weston.

WCC Chair Mike Sullivan was interviewed on-air by John Downs on December 15th, the day that Metrolinx announced that they were the new proponent of the expansion of GO service on the Georgetown GO Line, including the rail link between Union Station and Pearson. Click on the links below to hear the interview and read the Metrolinx press releases.

Since a decade or more has passed since the planning for the Pearson-Union ARL has been kicking around, and we have fought so many frustrating battles in the dark, I can’t help but thinking out loud about the bigger picture and how it all began for us.

November 3, 2008 - It has come to our attention that the city of Toronto has taken a position on the air-rail link. Apparently an engineering study was commissioned by the city of the Strachan Avenue crossing. As a result of that study, the city now has a ‘preferred option’ for the reconstruction of that crossing. The city wants to ask GO to lower the rail bed for ALL the tracks so that they are below Strachan Ave., at a significant additional cost. There is no word from the city (we have asked) on whether there has been any study of the 4 crossings in Weston.